Jet crash-lands at San Francisco airport
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It's amazing how the fire must have taken hold with modern plastic airframes isn't it? Still, could be worse and made from paper to save costs?
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The plane was coming in too low. Isn't there some light on the dash blinking TOO LOW, idiot! ?
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There are warnings for Angle of Attack, but if the angle was right and it was all just done too early... I don't think so. After all, then it would go off on every landing, and an alarm that always fires is useless.Tero wrote:The plane was coming in too low. Isn't there some light on the dash blinking TOO LOW, idiot! ?
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Sudden downdraft. Microbursts of wind can really mess with a plane.Tero wrote:The plane was coming in too low. Isn't there some light on the dash blinking TOO LOW, idiot! ?
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Looks like nothing unusual happened, he was just too low. Even the wheels would not have cleared the end of the runway. With the landing gear up possibly he could have cleared it with just a few feet and slowly pulled the nose up. Theoretically. He could have just said "so much for the wheels, lets do a belly flop landing." Instead he pulled it up.
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The airport ILF was turned off, so no.Tero wrote:The plane was coming in too low. Isn't there some light on the dash blinking TOO LOW, idiot! ?
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Hey, less than 1% of the passengers on this flight died. That's pretty good odds, right?PsychoSerenity wrote:Planes are normally safe aren't they?
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VFR - the pilot just blew it and the speed....who knows fatigue,
The top lines are what a normal glide path looks like
when you are on the correct glide path you pick a spot on the runway and it just grows larger in the windscreen - does not move much.
He was nowhere near that and that should have triggered a go around much much earlier.
He was just all out of his window.
The top lines are what a normal glide path looks like
when you are on the correct glide path you pick a spot on the runway and it just grows larger in the windscreen - does not move much.
He was nowhere near that and that should have triggered a go around much much earlier.
He was just all out of his window.
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The pilot apparently was training on the 777, with 43 hours on that particular aircraft.
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And first landing at SF in it, IIRC.Daedalus wrote:The pilot apparently was training on the 777, with 43 hours on that particular aircraft.
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FBM wrote:And only landing at SF in it, IIRC.Daedalus wrote:The pilot apparently was training on the 777, with 43 hours on that particular aircraft.
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Yeah, ah rekin..."A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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First landing in a plane, and it has to be full of people?!
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No, first landing at SFO. I doubt he'll be invited back.Daedalus wrote:First landing in a plane, and it has to be full of people?!
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